Word: provisos
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...with its expanding peacetime chemical business, and still smarting from the raking it took in 1934 in the Nye munitions investigation, Du Pont has shied away from powder-making for World War II. Hence the Allies' announcement of their new plant last week carried a careful proviso: while Du Pont will oversee both construction and operation of Tennessee Powder Co., it will have no part in its profits, will take only a management...
...London the British Government formally announced that not only would the four alleged puppet-killers in Tientsin be handed over, but also a fifth man, previously unmentioned. The British proudly stated that the fifth man had been surrendered only with the proviso that the British Consul General could occasionally go and look at him to make sure that he was not being tortured...
...Pink") Harrington. And Franklin Roosevelt was on record, since as early as 1935, as opposing the "prevailing wage" provision demanded (and heretofore obtained) by union labor. In signing the new Relief Act, Franklin Roosevelt noted other "hardships" worked by it (TIME, July 10), but he passed the 130-hour proviso without comment. Evidently he and his Janizariat had not realized what a cannon-cracker it would...
...With its blessing on sponsored shortwave broadcasts, FCC slipped in a proviso that: "A licensee of an international broadcast station shall render only an international broadcast service which will . . . promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." In plain talk, this means the broadcasters will have to follow the line laid down by the State Department. To broadcasters who are already used to working hand & glove with the State Department, this proviso was just part of the game, but the sensitive press began to spit and fume...
...Proviso township, near Chicago, Oscar Atkins, who had lived 17 days in a grave five feet deep in a vacant lot, clambered up, peevishly took down his sign MAN BURIED ALIVE, Ten Cents a Look. In a vacant lot two blocks off, Mrs. Marion Weaver had also dug a grave, had put up a sign GIRL BURIED ALIVE, was taking away all of Oscar Atkins' customers. Two miles away, Lester Mclntyre, buried alive 21 days, clambered out when it started to rain. Said Lester McIntyre: "My grave leaks...